"Rudolf Erich Raspe Rudolf Erich Raspe (March 1736 – 16 November 1794) was a German librarian, writer, and scientist, called by his biographer John Patrick Carswell a ""rogue"". He is best known for his collection of tall tales, """" also known as ""Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia"", originally a satirical work with political aims. Raspe was born in Hanover, and baptised on 28 March 1736. He studied law and jurisprudence at Göttingen and Leipzig and worked as a librarian for the university of Göttingen. In 1762, he became a clerk in the university library"
"The Legend of Rose Latulippe The Legend of Rose Latulipe, also known as The Legend of the Devil at the Dance and ""The Legend of the Beautiful Dancer"", is a French Canadian legend (Quebecois and Acadian), from the 18th century. There are more than 200 different versions of the legend. The most well-known version was written by Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, in 1837 in ""Le chercheur de trésor ou l'influence d'un livre"". This version recounts the story of Rose Latulipe, a young and frivolous girl who loved to dance. On the night of Mardi Gras, a stranger showed up at"
"on Sundays. The Legend of Rose Latulippe The Legend of Rose Latulipe, also known as The Legend of the Devil at the Dance and ""The Legend of the Beautiful Dancer"", is a French Canadian legend (Quebecois and Acadian), from the 18th century. There are more than 200 different versions of the legend. The most well-known version was written by Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, in 1837 in ""Le chercheur de trésor ou l'influence d'un livre"". This version recounts the story of Rose Latulipe, a young and frivolous girl who loved to dance. On the night of Mardi Gras, a stranger showed"
"A. Knopf in 1961, and later, in paperback, by Penguin books in 1972. A New York Review of Books edition translated by Alex Andriesse was published in 2018, covering the years 1768-1800 (first 12 of 42 books). Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe () is the memoir of François-René de Chateaubriand (1768–1848), collected and published posthumously in two volumes in 1849 and 1850, respectively. Chateaubriand was a writer, politician, diplomat, and historian who is regarded as the founder of French Romanticism. Although the work shares characteristics with earlier French ""memoirs"" (like the ""Memoirs"" of Saint-Simon), the ""Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe"" are also inspired by"
"Alphonse Rabbe Alphonse Rabbe (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, 1784 (?) – Paris, 31 December 1829) was a French writer, historian, critic, and journalist. Disfigured by syphilis and addicted to opium in an effort to make his life bearable, Rabbe is today remembered for his ""Album d’un pessimiste"" in which he writes of the pointlessness of existence. It was published posthumously in 1835. He is also thought to have penned a novel, ""La Sœur grise"", but the manuscript has not survived. Despite his almost complete detachment from society, he was friends with some of the most important literary figures of his day including Victor"
"Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, père, and Benjamin Constant. He died in 1829 from an overdose of laudanum. Though little known today, he inspired like-minded writers such as Baudelaire and Cioran. Alphonse Rabbe Alphonse Rabbe (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, 1784 (?) – Paris, 31 December 1829) was a French writer, historian, critic, and journalist. Disfigured by syphilis and addicted to opium in an effort to make his life bearable, Rabbe is today remembered for his ""Album d’un pessimiste"" in which he writes of the pointlessness of existence. It was published posthumously in 1835. He is also thought to have penned a novel, ""La Sœur grise"","
"François-René de Chateaubriand François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand (; ; 4 September 1768 – 4 July 1848), was a French writer, politician, diplomat and historian who founded Romanticism in French literature. Descended from an old aristocratic family from Brittany, Chateaubriand was a royalist by political disposition. In an age when a number of intellectuals turned against the Church, he authored the ""Génie du christianisme"" in defense of the Catholic faith. His works include the autobiography ""Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe"" (""""Memoirs from Beyond the Grave""""), published posthumously in 1849–1850. Historian Peter Gay says that Chateaubriand saw himself as the greatest lover, the greatest writer,"
"Marquis de Sade Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade (; 2 June 1740 – 2 December 1814), was a French nobleman, revolutionary politician, philosopher, and writer, famous for his libertine sexuality. His works include novels, short stories, plays, dialogues, and political tracts; in his lifetime some were published under his own name while others appeared anonymously, which Sade denied having written. Sade is best known for his erotic works, which combined philosophical discourse with pornography, depicting sexual fantasies with an emphasis on violence, suffering, criminality, and blasphemy against Christianity. He gained notoriety for putting these fantasies into practice with both"
"Adolphe Adolphe is a classic French novel by Benjamin Constant, first published in 1816. It tells the story of an alienated young man, Adolphe, who falls in love with an older woman, Ellénore, the Polish mistress of the Comte de P***. Their illicit relationship serves to isolate them from their friends and from society at large. The book eschews all conventional descriptions of exteriors for the sake of detailed accounts of feelings and states of mind. Constant began the novel on 30 October 1806, and completed it some time before 1810. While still working on it he read drafts to"
"etching techniques. Rops met Charles Baudelaire towards the end of the poet's life in 1864, and Baudelaire left an impression upon him that lasted until the end of his days. Rops created the frontispiece for Baudelaire's ""Les Épaves"", a selection of poems from ""Les Fleurs du mal"" that had been censored in France, and were therefore published in Belgium. His association with Baudelaire and with the art he represented won his work the admiration of many other writers, including Théophile Gautier, Alfred de Musset, Stéphane Mallarmé, Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly, and Joséphin Péladan. He was closely associated with the literary movement"
"to be an earnest exposition of occult lore. Its author, Abbé de Montfaucon de Villars, was assassinated on the road in 1673 and one rumor had it that he had been killed by a gang of sylphs for disclosing their secrets. One of the best-known discussions of sylphs comes with Alexander Pope. In ""Rape of the Lock"" (final ed. 1717), Pope satirizes French Rosicrucian and alchemical writings when he invents a theory to explain the sylph. In a parody of heroic poetry and the ""dark"" and ""mysterious"" alchemical literature, and in particular the sometimes esoterically Classical heroic poetry of the"
"has a number of scholarly references. Charles Baudelaire Charles Pierre Baudelaire (, ; ; April 9, 1821 – August 31, 1867) was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe. His most famous work, a book of lyric poetry titled ""Les Fleurs du mal"" (""The Flowers of Evil""), expresses the changing nature of beauty in modern, and rapidly industrializing Paris during the mid-19th century. Baudelaire's highly original style of prose-poetry influenced a whole generation of poets including Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud and Stéphane Mallarmé, among many others. He"
"Marquis de Sade bibliography Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, best known as the Marquis de Sade, was a French aristocrat, revolutionary and author of philosophical and sadomasochistic novels exploring such controversial subjects as rape, bestiality and necrophilia. His works evidence a philosophical mind advocating a materialist philosophy in which Nature dictates absolute freedom, unrestrained by morality, religion or law, with the pursuit of personal pleasure as its foremost principle. Besides novels, he wrote philosophical tracts, novellas, short tales, and a number of plays (many of which no longer extant). Publication, dissemination, and translation of his works have long been hindered"
"for many of the ""marvelous beings"" that populate later European literature. French readers include Charles Baudelaire and Anatole France – it was the main source for his ""At the Sign of the Reine Pédauque"" (1892). In English literature, it influenced Alexander Pope, who borrowed from it to create the sylphs in ""The Rape of the Lock"" (1714), and in German, it is a likely source for Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué's ""Undine"". In recent times it has been considered by some to have been intended as a satire of occult philosophy, though in its time it was taken seriously by"
"and criticism and her affairs with Chopin and several others; she too was inspired by the theatre, and wrote works to be staged at her private estate. French Romantic poets of the 1830s to 1850s include Alfred de Musset, Gérard de Nerval, Alphonse de Lamartine and the flamboyant Théophile Gautier, whose prolific output in various forms continued until his death in 1872. Stendhal is today probably the most highly regarded French novelist of the period, but he stands in a complex relation with Romanticism, and is notable for his penetrating psychological insight into his characters and his realism, qualities rarely"
"sentimentalist tradition, ""Adolphe"" examines the thoughts of the young man as he falls in and out of love with Ellenore, a woman of uncertain virtue. Constant began the novel as an autobiographical tale of two loves, but decided that the reading public would object to serial passions. The love affair depicted in the finished version of the novel is thought to be based on Constant's affair with Anna Lindsay, who describes the affair in her correspondence (published in the ""Revue des Deux Mondes"", December 1930 – January 1931). The book has been compared to Chateaubriand's ""René"" or Mme de Stael's"
"Charles Baudelaire Charles Pierre Baudelaire (, ; ; April 9, 1821 – August 31, 1867) was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe. His most famous work, a book of lyric poetry titled ""Les Fleurs du mal"" (""The Flowers of Evil""), expresses the changing nature of beauty in modern, and rapidly industrializing Paris during the mid-19th century. Baudelaire's highly original style of prose-poetry influenced a whole generation of poets including Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud and Stéphane Mallarmé, among many others. He is credited with coining the term"
"Aurore Dupin, who later became famous as the writer George Sand. Maria Aurore died on 25 December 1821 when her granddaughter George Sand was seventeen. Sand included details of her grandmother's parentage in her memoires Saxe wrote a work on the art of war, ""Mes Rêveries"", which though described by Carlyle as ""a strange military farrago, dictated, as I should think, under opium"", was praised by Frederick the Great of Prussia who kept a copy of ""Mes Rêveries"" by his bedside. Published posthumously in 1757, it was described by Lord Montgomery, more than two centuries later, as in fact ""a"
"lying-low at his father's house he began writing his novel ""L'influence d'un livre"". The story is made up of various fictionalised historical events, legends and folksongs which show the influence of father's recollections. Despite now being recognised as a major landmark in Canadian literature the book was not well received and Philippe died shortly afterwards in Halifax where he was buried in front of the present-day Spring Garden Road Public Library. Phillipe-Ignace François Aubert de Gaspé Philippe-Ignace-Francois Aubert de Gaspé, or simply Philippe Aubert de Gaspé (1814–7 March 1841) was a Canadian writer and is credited with writing the first"
"a world completely dominated by passion, and already his treatment of incipient attraction, passionate love and cold disillusion takes on a characteristic flavour. Here, not a single note rings false."" Notes Literature What Never Dies What Never Dies () is an 1884 novel by the French writer Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly. It tells the story of the orphan Allan who falls in love with his protectress, Mme de Scudemot, who has become indifferent due to erotic excesses in her youth; Allan eventually marries his lover's daughter Camille, but has been smitten by the older woman's indifference. The book is divided into"
"The Influence of a Book The Influence of a Book () is a novel by the Canadian writer Phillipe-Ignace François Aubert du Gaspé, first published in 1837. It is considered to be the first French Canadian novel, and although the book was not well received initially, it has come to be recognized as a major landmark in Canadian literature. It is the tale of Charles Amand's quest for gold. Between alchemy, the courtship of his daughter Amélie, the legend of Rose Latulipe and the murder of the peddler Guilmette, there is a satirical theme aimed at spiritual poverty in Quebec."
"most famous work, ""Essais"", created the literary genre of the essay. French poetry during that century was embodied by Pierre de Ronsard and Joachim du Bellay. Both writers founded the La Pléiade literary movement. During the 17th century, Madame de La Fayette published anonymously ""La Princesse de Clèves"", a novel that is considered to be one of the very first psychological novels of all times. Jean de La Fontaine is one of the most famous fabulists of that time, as he wrote hundreds of fables, some being far more famous than others, such as ""The Ant and the Grasshopper"". Generations"
"he wrote ""De l'usage de l'histoire"" in 1671. In this essay, he speaks about the good way of writing history and explains that understanding of facts is more important than facts themselves. In 1672, he published ""Dom Carlos"", subtitled ""nouvelle historique"". It's a short novel or a long short story which relates the love story of a forbidden passion between Dom Carlos, the son of Philip II of Spain, and his father's wife Elisabeth of Valois. Saint-Réal mixes politics and love, but love appears much more important. This novel was a hit with high society. Nowadays French critics see it"
"""Corinne"". Benjamin Constant Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque (; 25 October 1767 – 8 December 1830), or simply Benjamin Constant, was a Swiss-French political activist and writer on politics and religion. He was the author of a partly biographical psychological novel, ""Adolphe"". He was a fervent liberal of the early 19th century, who influenced the Trienio Liberal movement in Spain, the Liberal Revolution of 1820 in Portugal, the Greek War of Independence, the November Uprising in Poland, the Belgian Revolution, and liberalism in Brazil and Mexico. Henri-Benjamin Constant was born in Lausanne to descendants of Huguenot Protestants who had fled from"
"Jean Raspail Jean Raspail (born 5 July 1925) is a French author, traveler and explorer. Many of his books are about historical figures, exploration and indigenous peoples. He is a recipient of the prestigious French literary awards Grand Prix du Roman and Grand Prix de littérature by the Académie française. Internationally, he is best known for his controversial 1973 novel ""The Camp of the Saints"", which is about mass third-world immigration to Europe. Born on 5 July 1925 in Chemillé-sur-Dême, Indre-et-Loire, Jean Raspail is the son of factory manager Octave Raspail and Marguerite Chaix. He attended private Catholic school at"
"that Rachilde had was upon the literary world in which she lived. ""Monsieur Venus"" caused great scandal, but in general her works were not widely read by the general public and were almost forgotten. There has been a resurgence of interest in her after the 1977 reissue of ""Monsieur Venus"", but even that is often relegated to literary scholars with an interest in feminist or LGBTQ topics. During her lifetime and within her world, however, Rachilde made a definite impression. In an 1886 review, Maurice Barrès famously referred to her as, ""Mademoiselle Baudelaire,"" and explicitly situated her work in the"
"the 1923 novel ""The Secret Tomb "" is counted: Lupin doesn't appear in it, but the main character Dorothée solves one of Arsène Lupin's four fabulous secrets. The character has also appeared in a number of books from other writers as well as numerous film, television, stage play, and comic book adaptations. Five authorized sequels were written in the 1970s by the celebrated mystery writing team of Boileau-Narcejac. Arsène Lupin is a literary descendant of Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail's Rocambole, whose adventures were published from 1857 to 1870. Like him, he is often a force for good, while operating"
"Nicolas Rapin Nicolas Rapin (1535 – 16 February 1608) was a French Renaissance magistrate, royal officer, translator, poet and satirist, known for being one of the authors of the Satire Ménippée (1593/4) and an outspoken critic of the excesses of the Holy League during the Wars of Religion. Born at Fontenay-le-Comte, Vendée into a family of ""noblesse de robe"", Rapin pursued legal studies, practiced law at the parlement of Poitiers, and became ""échevin"" (municipal leader) and later mayor (1569–1570) of Fontenay-le Comte. At the start of the civil wars, he participated at the defense of Poitiers against the forces of"
"Phillipe-Ignace François Aubert de Gaspé Philippe-Ignace-Francois Aubert de Gaspé, or simply Philippe Aubert de Gaspé (1814–7 March 1841) was a Canadian writer and is credited with writing the first French Canadian novel. Philippe-Ignace-Francois was tutored by his father Philippe-Joseph and studied at the seminary of Nicolet. He worked as a journalist at the ""Quebec Mercury"" and ""Le Canadien"". He was sentenced to a month in prison in November 1835 after clashing with Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, who had questioned his integrity. In February of the following year he unleashed a stink bomb of asafoetida at the National Assembly of Quebec. While"
"be one of the greatest masters of comedy of the Western literature, wrote dozens of plays, including ""Le Misanthrope"", ""L'Avare"", ""Le Malade imaginaire"", and ""Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme"". His plays have been so popular around the world that French language is sometimes dubbed as ""the language of Molière"" (""la langue de Molière""), just like English is considered as ""the language of Shakespeare"". French literature and poetry flourished even more in the 18th and 19th centuries. Denis Diderot's best-known works are ""Jacques the Fatalist"" and ""Rameau's Nephew"". He is however best known for being the main redactor of the ""Encyclopédie"", whose aim"
"correspondent in Italy. While traveling with American soldiers fighting in Italy in 1944, Faust was mortally wounded by shrapnel. Dan Barry Series Ronicky Doone Trilogy Silvertip Series Dr. Kildare Series Tizzo the Firebrand Series Other Novels Max Brand Frederick Schiller Faust (May 29, 1892 – May 12, 1944) was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns under the pen name Max Brand. Faust (as Max Brand) also created the popular fictional character of young medical intern Dr. James Kildare in a series of pulp fiction stories. Faust's Kildare character was subsequently featured over several decades in"
"wrote the erotic poems ""Venus and Adonis"" and ""The Rape of Lucrece"". In the 17th century, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647–80) was notorious for obscene verses, many of which were published posthumously in compendiums of poetry by him and other Restoration rakes such as Sir Charles Sedley, Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, and George Etherege. Though many of the poems attributed to Rochester were actually by other authors, his reputation as a libertine was such that his name was used as a selling point by publishers of collections of erotic verse for centuries after. One poem which definitely"
"eccentric sentences : Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail Pierre Alexis, Viscount of Ponson du Terrail (8 July 1829 – 20 January 1871) was a French writer. He was a prolific novelist, producing in the space of twenty years some seventy-three volumes, and is best remembered today for his creation of the fictional character of Rocambole. He was born in Montmaur (Hautes Alpes). Ponson du Terrail's early works squarely belonged to the Gothic novel genre: his ""La Baronne Trépassée"" (1852) was a murky Ann Radcliffe-like tale of revenge in the macabre surroundings of 18th-century Germany Black Forest. The novel was translated"